Hutchby2011

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Hutchby2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hutchby2011
Author(s) Ian Hutchby
Title Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Broadcast, Hybrid discourse, Infotainment, News interviews, Political communication
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Year 2011
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 13
Number 3
Pages 147–171
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DOI 10.1177/1461445611400665
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Abstract

This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitigated and aggravated opposition characteristic of argument. Drawing on a sample of interviews involving different hosts, I analyse the structural features of both interviewer and interviewee turns that occur in these environments. I do this in relation both to sequential matters — that is, the types of turns taken and their relations with other turns in their immediate environment — and to matters of the substantive content of utterances — that is, what speakers are saying and/or the way they are saying it.

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